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Saturday, April 02, 2005
Status of EDGE
GPRS has proven to be too slow for most information services and practically all media services except primarily ringtones and background pictures.
Bearer technology and multimedia correlation:
* SMS (primarily Nokia Smart Messaging): monophonic ringtones, black-n-white pictures
* GPRS (or at least what we tend to call GPRS) and cdma2000 1X: the above plus polyphonic ringtones, color pictures, Java games
* EDGE, UMTS, EV-DO: the above plus digital music, larger games, videos, productivity applications, media streaming
UMTS will down the road evolve beyond EDGE performance, but right now the difference is not very big, and EDGE is expected to have better coverage than UMTS.
Digital Media Europe: News - 100 GSM/EDGE handsets now on market
Bearer technology and multimedia correlation:
* SMS (primarily Nokia Smart Messaging): monophonic ringtones, black-n-white pictures
* GPRS (or at least what we tend to call GPRS) and cdma2000 1X: the above plus polyphonic ringtones, color pictures, Java games
* EDGE, UMTS, EV-DO: the above plus digital music, larger games, videos, productivity applications, media streaming
UMTS will down the road evolve beyond EDGE performance, but right now the difference is not very big, and EDGE is expected to have better coverage than UMTS.
Digital Media Europe: News - 100 GSM/EDGE handsets now on market
